The Tower Heart still needs more power, so the Overlord also drains Fay of her magical energy, corrupting her and taking her as his third mistress. Florian is captured by the Empire after leading the Overlord to the shards, and Fay regretfully allows the Overlord to drain four shrines to power up the Tower Heart. After encountering the Elves in their main sanctuary, Queen Fay and Florian help the Overlord to reassemble the Tower Heart. Gnarl tasks him with finding the shards of the Tower Heart.
The Overlord travels to the Wastelands, where the old tower resided. The Overlord beats all opponents, and when the yeti is brought out to face him the player has the option of either weakening and capturing the yeti, or killing it.īack at the Netherworld tower, the Overlord is visited by a mysterious woman who Gnarl vaguely recognizes. Exploring the slums results in the Overlord being captured and sent to the Arena, a large Coliseum-like structure where magical beings are killed in gladiatorial games.
Juno tells the Overlord how to access the Empire's main city, but while attempting to sneak in, the Overlord falls into the slums. He then kills or enslaves the town's inhabitants. The Overlord gains control of Everlight and takes Juno, a seductress accused of being a witch by other Empire women, as a mistress. Its nobles use the area as a holiday resort, where they have all become lazy and fat due to the round the clock service by former elf residents, who the Empire enslaved. Upon arriving, the Overlord finds that Everlight has already been captured by the Empire. The Overlord and his horde of minions soon travel to the flooded Everlight Reef to gain access into the Elven lands of Everlight. He begins by capturing Nordberg and taking Kelda, the only girl in the village who was not afraid of him as a child, as his mistress, and choosing to either enslave or destroy the village. During this time the observed actions of the Glorious Empire leads Gnarl to classify it as a threat, and the Overlord heads out to conquer the world and destroy the Empire. The Overlord then heads to one of the Elves' nearby sanctuaries and proceeds to destroy it, an act that earns him the hatred of the Elf Queen Fay. The Elves try and prevent him from slaying baby seals, and take in the yeti. Upon coming-of-age and passing Gnarl's tests, the player scouts the Nordberg countryside, encountering a band of fanatical environmentalist Elves lead by Florian Greenheart. The player character is then raised by Gnarl and the Minions as the new Overlord. A yeti, freed by the Overlord during his escape over an ice-covered lake, causes the ice sheet to break, freezing the Overlord until his Minions take him to the Netherworld. The reason behind the attack is that the empire senses the growing magical energy in the overlord child. The villagers on the other hand offer him up to save the town. Minions find him during his childhood and, believing that he has the potential to become their new master, help him escape when the Glorious Empire attack Nordberg. In the village, he is treated as an outcast and all of the villagers refer to him as Witch-Boy. He is taken to the mountain village of Nordberg and left there. This child is both the new Overlord and the player character. The Glorious Empire mimics many features of the ancient Roman empire.Īs shown in Raising Hell, the previous Overlord's mistress, Rose, gives birth to his child. The survivors fled to new lands where the Glorious Empire comes into being, and begins to take control of the new lands while purging all magical creatures. Shortly after the old Overlord's disappearance, the Tower Heart was broken causing the Cataclysm, which in turn destroyed the locations of the first game and started a magical plague. Overlord II follows the events of the Raising Hell expansion pack from the first game. Overlord II is the sequel to the original Overlord video game and was released in June 2009.
Overlord II is a third-person action-adventure game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Codemasters for the Xbox 360, PC and Playstation 3.